[blog] 02/02: Initial draft of 152.

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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Mar 25 12:05:59 2018 -0400

    Initial draft of 152.
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+[[!meta title="Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #152"]]
+
+Here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday March 18 and Saturday March 24 2018:
+
+- Nicolas Vigier [updated our website](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=14c2573) to correct the tool used to build [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html).
+
+* Chris Lamb presented on reproducible builds at [LibrePlanet 2018](https://www.libreplanet.org/2018/) on Saturday 24th March.
+
+* On Tuesday March 20th, Chris Lamb also [presented about reproducible builds](https://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/248246544/) at the [New York Linux Users Group](http://www.nylug.org/).
+
+* Chris Lamb migrated the [trydiffoscope](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/trydiffoscope), [presentations](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-presentations), [buildinfo.debian.net](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/buildinfo.debian.net), [reproducible-utils](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-utils), [tasks](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-tasks) and [misc](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible [...]
+
+
+Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
+-------------------------------------------
+
+* Adrian Bunk:
+    * [[!bug 893374]] filed against [[!pkg preload]].
+
+* Chris Lamb:
+    * [[!bug 893504]] filed against [[!pkg javatools]] (fixed).
+    * [[!bug 893611]] filed against [[!pkg rpyc]].
+
+
+diffoscope development
+----------------------
+
+[diffoscope](https://diffoscope.org/) is our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues. This week, version [92](https://tracker.debian.org/news/942181/accepted-diffoscope-92-source-all-into-unstable/) was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. It included [contributions already covered by posts in previous weeks](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/log/?h=92) as well as new ones from:
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+    - New features:
+        - [Add support for comparing Gnumeric spreadsheets.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=f2d71c1) (Closes: [[!bug 893311]])
+        - [Show the list of supported file types in the manual and `--help` output. Thanks to Jonathan Dowland for the suggestion.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=1375ec5) (Closes: [[!bug 893443]])
+    - Bug fixes:
+        - [Update Java tests for `openjdk-9`.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=41da8b1) (Closes: [[!bug 893183]])
+    - Misc:
+        - [Add explicit runtime dependency on `python3-distutils` as it was dropped in Python `3.6.5~rc1-2`.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=6131e2f)
+        - [Use our `bin/diffoscope` wrapper in manpage generation to ensure we are using the local version of diffoscope.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=075d944)
+        - [Clarify in the package description that that the Reproducible Builds project is not just about Debian.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=c92c3b2)
+- Mattia Rizzolo:
+    - [Add the word "ignore" to the `--exclude-directory-metadata` help text.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=338af55) (Closes: [[!bug 893324]])
+- Paul Wise:
+    - [Add "more" ignore terminalogy to the documentation for exclusion options.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=e2e1fc1)
+
+
+reprotest development
+---------------------
+
+*reprotest* is our tool to build software and check it for reproducibility.
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+    - [Add a `bin/reprotest` to match diffoscope](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=cd3db75) and [use it in our manpage generation.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=28e4857)
+    - [Drop executable bit on `doc/Makefile`](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=9a39b11)
+    - [Add Holger to `Uploaders` to avoid spurious "NMU" Lintian warnings.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=3eed0f9)
+
+
+trydiffoscope development
+-------------------------
+
+*trydiffoscope* is a lightweight command-line tool to the [try.diffoscope.org](https://try.diffoscope.org/) web-based version of [diffoscope](https://diffoscope.org).
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+    - [Bump debhelper "compat" level to 11.](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/trydiffoscope/commit/db423bc)
+    - [Add `python3-distutils` to Build-Depends.](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/trydiffoscope/commit/73efec0)
+    - [Update Git URLs after moving the repository to salsa.debian.org.](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/trydiffoscope/commit/6f3ffc6)
+
+
+Reviews of unreproducible packages
+----------------------------------
+
+88 package reviews have been added, 109 have been updated and 18 have been removed in this week,
+adding to our [knowledge about identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html).
+
+A [random\_order\_in\_javahelper\_manifest\_files](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=cdef761f) toolchain issue was added by Chris Lamb and the [timestamps\_in\_pdf\_generated\_by\_inkscape](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=aafef906) toolchain issue was also updated with a URI to the upstream discussion.
+
+
+Weekly QA work
+--------------
+
+During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:
+
+ - Adrian Bunk (66)
+ - Jeremy Bicha (1)
+ - Michael Olbrich (1)
+ - Ole Streicher (1)
+ - Sebastien KALT (1)
+ - Thorsten Glaser (1)
+
+
+Misc.
+-----
+
+This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.

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